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RIAA goes judge shopping in New York

article published on 14 June, 2008

Ray Beckerman, the attorney behind the RIAA watchdog site Recording Industry vs The People appeared to be on the verge of getting a file sharing lawsuit dismissed in federal court when the RIAA suddenly dopped the case. Initially there was a lot of speculation they feared the judge's expected decision that simply making music available by sharing via P2P doesn't infringe copyright and neither ... [ read the full article ]

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Blackjax
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_ 		14. June 2008 @ 03:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well eventually their track record is going to end up like Big Brown in the derby..... coming in dead last. Keep screwing around with the bull and eventually you will get the horn. Eventually they will hurt themselves by stepping on enough consumer toes.

As for the comment of "these people are pyschos" well that was spot on right and well known amongst those of us who try to stay informed.
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nobrainer
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_ 		14. June 2008 @ 03:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
you also forgot accusing photocopiers for copy-write infringement!

this is just as low as you'd expect from this lot and lets all hope the judge residing thinks the same.

just because the case isn't going our way, we are going to stamp our feet and scream and shout and keep going until we find a judge we've paid off.

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7thsinger
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_ 		14. June 2008 @ 11:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Maybe somebody should explain to their lawyers that federal judges tend to be harder to intimidate than single mothers, children, or dead people. And their track record isn't so hot against any of them either.
So true and well said.

EDIT: and don't forget laser printers.
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ddp
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_ 		14. June 2008 @ 12:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
my laser printer is innocent as i found it aslong the side of the road unless it got left behind by illegal downloaders then oh well. you know the saying, " free is free".
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_ 		14. June 2008 @ 12:59 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Maybe somebody should explain to their lawyers that federal judges tend to be harder to intimidate than single mothers, children, or dead people. And their track record isn't so hot against any of them either.
So true and well said.

EDIT: and don't forget laser printers.

I don't know about that. They scared the toner right out of mine. I had to vacuum up a pile of it from in front of the printer stand last week ;-)
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Blackjax
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_ 		15. June 2008 @ 01:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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Maybe somebody should explain to their lawyers that federal judges tend to be harder to intimidate than single mothers, children, or dead people. And their track record isn't so hot against any of them either.
So true and well said.

EDIT: and don't forget laser printers.

I don't know about that. They scared the toner right out of mine. I had to vacuum up a pile of it from in front of the printer stand last week ;-)
And I thought mine was the only one that wasn't house broken!
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southrb
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Is that not haw justice is bought--sorry dispensed
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